FORA.tv Speaker - Ian Vasquez

Biography

Ian Vasquez is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the Cato Institute in 1992, Vasquez worked on inter-American issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Caribbean/Latin American Action.
His articles have appeared in newspapers throughout the United States and Latin America including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Miami Herald, the Financial Times, Investors' Business Daily, El Comercio (Peru), El Economista (Mexico), El Mercurio (Chile), and El Nuevo Herald (U.S.).
Vasquez regularly appears on CNBC, NBC, C-SPAN Washington Journal, CNN en Espanol, Telemundo, Univision, and Canadian Television, as well as NPR and Voice of America. He received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and his master's degree from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.